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Matt,<br><br>
You still don't understand the difference between 20 percent of UI staff
who make under $10.75 per hour, and faculty who have been getting pretty
good raises, although still at the bottom of their peer
institutions.<br><br>
Just for the record, I did quit four years ago. It's called
retirement.<br><br>
To Donovan: my proposal used the CPI as a standard. I never made it
to the CPI, but the upper administration have done it for years.
Only those above the CPI would donate their extras wages.<br><br>
Nick Gier<br><br>
At 05:59 PM 10/14/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Nick,<br><br>
The great thing about your and my job is we can quit. If you don't think
you make enough than quit. I doubt our wounded soldiers can do
that.<br><br>
So again I would rather donate my meager earnings to our troops than to
the "highly underpaid" staff.<br><br>
Matt<br><br>
> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:12:38 -0700<br>
> From: nickgier@adelphia.net<br>
> To: mattd2107@hotmail.com<br>
> CC: vision2020@moscow.com<br>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Friday Fireworks<br>
> <br>
> Hi Matt,<br>
> <br>
> You misunderstood what the issue was about. In my post I made a
clear distinction between the administrators and faculty, who have
received good pay raises over the past four years, while classified staff
have not. Nearly 20 percent, according to Tom Trail's figures, are under
the poverty line. <br>
> <br>
> I also noted that administrators are way ahead of the CPI and full
professors are way behind, but UI staff are even further behind, how much
we don't know because salary figures are available.<br>
> <br>
> My new suggestion is that UI administrators donate all their salary
above the CPI to fund a living wage of $10.75 for all UI classified
staff.<br>
> <br>
> Nick<br>
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